Latin America is reviving old development fantasies under new technological guises, while the structural dependence that Stavenhagen denounced six decades ago persists.
The bills aimed at regulating the legal framework for artificial intelligence in Brazil are key steps toward establishing public limits and ensuring minimum rights in the use of these technologies.
For a long time, the development model in Latin America and the Caribbean followed an upward trajectory: escaping poverty through economic growth would lead to the emergence of a stable middle class.
The updating of the concept of 'development' has, at this time, direct implications regarding the debate on what direction to give to Latin American societies.
